[Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered

[Ginga Wilder]

Great news, Jay!
Ginga


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the odd things that's happened: When talking to Jonathan, I
> mentioned that one thing I'd always wanted to do but never could get the
> late ex off dead center to start on, was to enclose the back porch and
> incorporate it into the house as a dining room. He said , "That is SO
> freaky! My mom was just here and she said exactly the same thing about it!"
> Great minds, I guess.
>
> On Monday, September 22, 2014, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > What a great solution for you, your kids and your former home!
> > Lynn
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >
> > Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> > ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder
> is
> > leaning against the wrong wall.”
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:26 AM
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>; "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered
> >
> >  Or, when God closes a door, God opens a window.
> >>
> >> I have fussed and fretted about the house I still own in Tennessee. I'd
> >> wanted my son to move into it, but he didn't really want to. So it sits
> >> there, getting overgrown and falling into disrepair.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, my daughter and her husband were struggling to get it all
> >> together to buy my mom and dad's house in Tennessee, and just about had
> it
> >> done, despite the fact that my brother continued to throw all kinds of
> >> clods in the churn and last week threw a big one in that basically
> clogged
> >> the churn.
> >>
> >> So I asked for your prayers before I told my brother something I really
> >> didn't want to say. Then, after some prayers of my own, I called my
> >> son-in-law and something quite different came out of my mouth.
> >>
> >> Two days later he called me back and asked me the following: Could they
> >> fix
> >> up the house fit to live in, move in, finish fixing it up until it was
> >> salable, then buy it from me? They had been discussing that non-stop for
> >> almost 24 hours and that was the solution they came up with. He said it
> >> felt like the best thing for all of them. His mother is in that town,
> much
> >> of my daughter's support system is there, her other-mother is two doors
> up
> >> the street, there is an Episcopal school the boys may be able to attend
> >> through 8th grade (pending tuition affordability), the church Betsy grew
> >> up
> >> in is there......etc, etc. The pros far outweighed the cons. And as I
> told
> >> him, they didn't necessarily have to stay there forever......they could
> >> flip it to their hearts' content and then sell at a profit once they buy
> >> it
> >> from me, and then move wherever they want to.
> >>
> >> And oddly enough, my brother hasn't said anything at all to me. Not one
> >> word. Nor I to him. The only thing I have to say to him is that he can
> do
> >> what he wants with the house, and anything due me from the sale will go
> >> directly into trust funds for my grandsons' education. Whether our
> >> relationship is repairable may be up to him.
> >>
> >> Thank you all for your prayers, and please keep them coming for my
> >> daughter
> >> and her family as they work on the house, and for my peace of mind.
> >>
> >
> >
>